We started our month with a semi quiet weekend. We cleaned the house and had basketball. We went home for dinner and then headed over to Andrea and Robert’s place to see it all put together. Sunday was a quiet one; I finished the July blog and the kids just chilled out as did Bruce.
Our first week in August was a quiet one, I had my first mid weekday off in I don’t know how long. Paula and I started walking every morning, which took a little getting used to, but it’s cool when you get used to it. I went into Conner’s class and did my usual copying magic for Mrs. Kopecky. Then spent the rest of the day tidying up and took a walk to the supermarket. I called in for our usual Tuesday staff meeting, which will take some getting used to, by the time that was done, the kids were home from school. It was nice to sit down with jamieson (as hard as it can be sometimes) and get his homework done. He has been having a few issues at school. (Same as his brother did, but we aren’t going to tell him that.) He’s decided to be the class clown, which isn’t going down to well with his teacher or parents. Hopefully that will get nipped in the budd sooner rather than later.
The rest of the week consisted of the usual boys with skills and basketball practice, homework and walking. It’s a new schedule and it will take some getting used to. Not sure how I feel about not being home in the afternoon when the kids go home from school but we’ll see how it goes.
Our weekend was pretty much just the kids basketball on Saturday afternoon then after that Bruce went over to the Rivera’s and got the kids to stay at our place while Kristie and Carlos were flying. IT was a usual night with 3 extra kids, lots of noise, but the kids have some fun. They were all in bed (the boys in with the boys and the girls on the fold out) the house was quiet around 10.30 which was good and Bruce and I weren’t far behind. We woke up at a reasonable hour and all had some breakfast kind of quickly before Trevor had to be at the park for baseball practice. I threw a pancake at him as he and Bruce walked out the door. The rest of us had a big pancake breakfast and chilled out. Their grandma picked them up around 11.30 and we spent the rest of the day tidying up and getting ready for the week.
Our week was a fairly usual one, deadlines at work, homework, Bruce and the boys doing the usual school, basketball practice, skills and work. The boys came to work with me a couple of the days while Bruce was out on the road, otherwise nothing out of the ordinary. Well, accept for my birthday night family dinner which Bruce was going to cook himself (kind of) turned into a ‘SURPRISE’ birthday party/BBQ with our wonderful friends. Which I must say Bruce was pretty pleased with himself for pulling off.
I finished work a little early; the kids went off track as well so that made for another schedule change. Bruce took them out to run errands (get cake). Andrea took me out to get a pedicure and Paula came too, which was nice and relaxing or as Maureen said when she called, ‘you will float out of there’, which I did. I came home and the boys had put up some pretty girlie decorations for me and for some reason our Australian Flag at the front of the house. The house looked so cute, balloons everywhere for the kids to play and streamers it was very cool. Bruce told me that the Charles’ were coming over for my dinner, which I was looking forward to then all our other friends just showed up!!! I was actually surprised, for the second time in 17 years (how old does that make me feel).
The kids were all playing and we were all hanging out in the back yard, the boys were bbq’ing, perfect birthday; us and our family/friends, we ate good food, got the glow sticks out had a little dance party in the lounge room, dancing with my husband is always fun, had birthday cake and sang, then just chilled out for the rest of the evening. Everyone had gone by around 11.30; I wasn’t even allowed to pack up. Which funnily enough, Paula and Kristie said they felt like naughty children being in the kitchen. I still enforce the “stay out of my kitchen” rule for visitors!! It was a great birthday….
We were up in the morning and Jamieson and I went to the park dedication for the park Bruce and I volunteered at, Bruce stayed home with Conner who wasn’t feeling 100%. Jamieson played in the new playground and on the water park and I did a little stint in the free food stand before heading home for lunch then basketball games for the afternoon. The Rivera’s came to watch the boys basketball games and then came over for dinner. I made soup and we had bbq as well. The boys sat down to watch some Aussie Rules, and the girls chilled out!!
We finished off the weekend with some house cleaning, Bruce and Conner went out and did some birthday money shopping and we had a nice quiet family dinner to round out the weekend.
The rest of the month was pretty much business as usual. The boys were off track so they spent some time with me at the office. I started looking after Justin and Jeremy two afternoons a week, and also having Tuesday’s at home, so I was a little back and forth and getting used to the new schedule.
We ended the month with an interesting weekend. We got Chewy (Millie’s dog) on Thursday and drove them to the airport to go to Disneyland for the Labor Day weekend. Saturday, I started the spring-cleaning so to speak and Bruce and Jamieson went out garage saleing and came back with a huge TV!! SO of course that meant changing around 3 rooms in the house, the boys now have a TV in the garage room for their play station and eye toy, a gaming room you could call it. All it needs now is a heater for the winter and some beanbags. We went over to Paula’s for dinner and the boys swimming, Conner was swimming without his goggles and cracked his tooth on the bottom of the pool. We had some dinner and Paula and I went upstairs to transform her into Madonna for their party. We took all 4 boys home and Justin and Jeremy stayed the night. They watched a bit of the movie and they all slept in the lounge room.
Paula and Steve came and got the boys around mid morning, then we dropped the boys off over there and Bruce and I went out for a look around, without kids, shock horror!! We went back to Paula’s for dinner and then took the kids home and we all had a quiet night at home. Our Monday went along the same lines, did some gardening, cleaned the garage a little the usual catching up cleaning from around the house.
So that was another month from 2008 gone!!! I hope you all had a great month.
Happy Birthday to my girls; Sophie, Alex and Uncle Paul.
Big month ahead, the boys are back at school and Bruce is turning a year older! OOO!
